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#51 Living by the water

It is hardly a secret that all white people love being near water. And why wouldn’t they? It has so many of the activities that they love to do: swimming, kayaking, canoeing, sailing, and it’s a perfect place to read next to.

But before we move on, let’s not gloss over that last point. White people love to be near a body of water so they can read a book, while sitting nearby. The process of reading is somehow heightened through the process of doing it near some water. Extreme reading!

But when you think long term, it’s important to realize that all white people either own/wish to own/plan to own/will own some sort of property near a body of water. Rather than say all white people want to live on the ocean, it’s important to break it up and apply it across the regions.

On the west coast, all white people want to live as close to the beach as possible. One look at the demographics for Manhattan Beach, Santa Monica, Hermosa Beach, Newport Beach, and Laguna Beach will reveal this fact through tangible numbers.

On the East Coast, many white people dream of owning ocean front property in New England, where they can make their lives as close as possible to a J. Crew catalog.

And in the landlocked states, the dream of lakefront property is alive and well.

It is also worth noting that often times, white people will purchase second homes near water if they cannot accommodate the dream in their own city. Often times they want to buy within driving distance, but the need for life near water is so great that they will even consider buying in other countries.

To a white person, a view of water from your house is the greatest achievement in life. And you should remember this when discussing your hopes and dreams with white people. It is also important that you choose a water sport (swimming, fishing, kayaking, etc) that you pretend to like. That way, you can talk about how when you move to your waterfront property you can just wake up in the morning and [insert outdoor activity], right from your front door.

Mountain views are also acceptable, but generally seen as a poor substitute.

I live in Southern California, or as us white people like to call it “SoCal.” Nearly without exception, people feel “spirtually connected” to the ocean, and it’s soothing waves. “I just like knowing it’s there” someone said to me.

And who could blame ’em. The water is polluted, which is great because now we have a “cause.” Also, it’s filled with adorable things we want to save. Oh, and it’s a prime source of SUSHI!

This one, #51, is weaker than many of the other list items. Is a white-specific love of waterfront living the cause of whites owning so much beachfront property as they do? I think there are several races that enjoy living near water. Maybe most members of any particular race would choose waterfront property if they could do so cheaply. People like the water because the white noise is more pleasant than, e.g., the sound of screaming kids next door. And it does make reading easier; it’s easier for some people to focus on text when they’re enveloped in white noise, just like it’s easier for some people to sleep when there’s a ticking clock.

White hipsters make the mistake of moving INTO poor/crappy neighborhoods as if that makes them less white/mainstream. But poor people don’t move into poor neighborhoods; they move out if they can, and they stay in them if they can’t (having been born into them). A related misconception on the part of white people is that non-whites choose to live in landlocked areas. I’m not sure if the trend of non-whites living in landlocked areas is due to an active choice; it may be a passive choice that occurs when other factors are more highly prioritized, factors like proximity to work, housing prices, etc. This is not to say that non-whites are unable to exercise free-will some respect, just that sometimes (for many types of people) geography gets largely ignored when housing choices are made.

It’s like Thelonius Monk Jr. said of his late father: He didn’t want to be playing little clubs, but big stages. Only dumb white folks see some black guy in a little jazz club and think that it’s his ideal venue. Sometimes it’s just the only venue he’s got available to him.

Or like that guy in Lawrence of Arabia — I think it was the actor’s name I forget, the one who beat the mexican valet parking attendant when he wouldn’t accept euros — says: The Arab doesn’t love the desert. He wants water and shade too.

Yes, but white people will sit in traffic for hours “escaping” to their summer places on the Cape or Maryland shore etc. so they can populate said resorts with other white people when there is more white noise back in the city on weekends because all of the white people have left.

This one is a failure. Look at the population density distribution of China. Middle America is filled with white people. White people just want to get away. This is after moving to the city to be ‘where it’s at’. Look, white people are just confused is all. The inborn compass doesn’t work, as it’s deflected by mercury from the sushi.

This is part of what is known as the “Faustian” soul of white people. Its a need to explore, to evolve, and to see something new. It came about within the evolutionary conditions of Ice-age Europe. White people are naturally non-urban in nature. No matter how much white people pretend to love the city, the key is to look at how many plants they own in their very hip apartments. The water represents the unknown and a challenge to find out what waits beyond.

I’m white and I live pretty far inland. But this is bullshit, tons of white people live in Kansas. But I know you’re talking about rich white liberals, so meh. Anyway I don’t care about being close to the water, but my wife does. I’ll let her know how lame she is despite having a cool fucking husband like me.

As for Blacks who can’t swim that doesn’t apply to me. I grew up on a Caribbean Island and have been swimming since I knew myself. Hey I even used to compete for my school in swimming.I’m an Island girl at heart.

ANYONE who lives in Jersey knows this post is the truth! I personally live in northern Jersey and know white people who take the 2 hr. commute to work daily from the shore. They just can’t wait until the summer!

Well, if you live in a street divided by a canal or near a river that will overflow whenever it rains a bit too much – then living by the water looses it’s cool pretty soon. Or did you just mean living by the sea?

“This is part of what is known as the “Faustian” soul of white people. Its a need to explore, to evolve, and to see something new. It came about within the evolutionary conditions of Ice-age Europe. White people are naturally non-urban in nature. No matter how much white people pretend to love the city, the key is to look at how many plants they own in their very hip apartments. The water represents the unknown and a challenge to find out what waits beyond.”

Another uber-whitey overanalyzing things…
We like water for the simple fact that it supplies sustinance. Control the water, control the world.
If the shit hits the fan, hey, screw you, we’ve got water, bitches.
In the case of oceans, we’ve got fish, bitches.

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It’s nice we can get a laugh out of all this, but if anyone started a funny blog about what other races do, especially African Americans, here comes Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpon ready to sue you for every penny.

What I think you and many others may fail to realize is that we can all laugh at this blog because it appears to have been created by White people about White people. No one becomes offended when an individual criticizes their own demographic because they fall under the shadow of their own criticism; it is when that individual takes upon themselves to criticize others, especiallywhen the critic’s demographic has a history of antagonizing that particular group of people, and even more, does not, on a large scale, have extensive amounts of personal and intimate experience of value with that group to merit a relationship that makes allowances for these types of remarks.

The question that then arises is how would YOU personally feel if a ethnic person took it upon themselves to adopt racial slurs, such as the C-word or the H-word, because it was considered cool, and their White friends used it all the time? Would it not be offensive to you, especially if the word’s negative connation came from these individuals’ culture and you had had past, negative experiences of it being directed at you as an insult by this same group of people?

* As far as Black comedians are concerned…. they may criticize other races, but they almost always criticize the Black race much more.

White people love New England because it’s cold and foggy. Only people descended from northern Europeans are adapted to actually enjoy that weather. It’s one of the whitest places in America and they don’t even have to be racist to keep it that way. Everywhere else, they have to use gentrification to kick out the nonwhites.

One of the first things my parents taught me is that white people love the water, but that Chinese people don’t like the water. It smells. And a there is stuff floating in it, and it makes the area permanently humid, which is bad for pretty much everything.

Saying that I like boats was pretty much instant grounds for ass beating, because boats are for smelly, slimy, poor fishermen.

You could fill an encyclopedia with all the stuff that white people like that is involved with “living by the water.” Sailing is huge with white people, and with Asian kids who want to hang out with white people. Sailing usually requires a yacht club nearby, to store sailboats and all their equipment, and as a venue for junior sailing banquets where the boys get to wear navy blue blazers and striped ties, like their daddies did at their sailing banquet 30 yrs ago, and the little (mostly) blonde girls all look adorable in their cute cotton sundresses. The guys show how truly cool they are by wearing their Oakley sunglasses with croakies (spongy straps to keep them from falling into the lake) turned around so the glasses are on backwards, but over the collar of their shirt. Also, to show off at the banquet, the winner of the big prize, if a guy, will wear hiking boots with red whale shorts, or a cheesy pastel tuxedo jacket found at a thrift shop, i.e. “I give a shit.”

Yacht clubs also almost always have a bar, the reason being, why go out boating if you can’t go out drinking, altho most drinking is done at the end of a sailing day, and a lot of it on boats out in the harbor. The walls of the bar have half-models of famous sailing vessels and there are often glass cases showing off the silverware won in sailing events such as the Bermuda Race. Ralph Lauren didn’t just make this stuff up! Of course, everyone who belongs to a yacht club thinks that the view from their yacht club’s front porch is the best anywhere.

Some yacht clubs have extensive dining facilities and they almost all have “steak fries” and “lobster boils” often to raise money to buy new Optis (tiny sailboat)for the junior program. Yacht clubs that operate year-round have big children’s Christmas parties and New Year’s Eve doings for the adults which often lead to their un-doings, with alcohol being involved. So it really is an all-encompassing way of live, living near the water.

I feel as though my cover is totally blown! I have an English/Irish mother and a Colombian father (who lives in Manhattan) and have been trying to convince my White husband that I am very ethnic, and practically a sista’. But btw graduate school, being a lawyer, living in Laguna Beach, loving NYC, wanting to see Juno again, voting for Barrack as a Republican, and digging Saturday morning breakfast and overpriced sandwiches (I took him to my favorite spot today in Corona del Mar)…thanks a lot. My husband found your site and now I don’t hear the end of how white I am. But I could pass a dancing test.

White people, myself included,go to the beach for the same reasons other ethnic groups like to go to the beach; people wear less clothes there. Nothing deep or primordial here, people just like to see other humans of different shapes and sizes in a more natural state…oh, yeah… almost forgot…and they like to do water sports too.

I live so near the water, we can’t have a basement. If one digs down further than about ten feet, water starts oozing into your hole. I don’t especially like living this close to the water, I get anxious about flooding during hurricane season. (We live near Houston.)

Living by the water is a fantastic investment and usually totally out of reach economically for the average person. Water front property will always appreciate as it is a limited resource. People with similar financial wealth will assimilate to this type of property – usually WASPs, with emphasis on WHITE.

# 37 Yes that’s so true about the lifeguards not being there at the beaches.Nothing beats growing up in the Caribbean, going to the beach almost everyday. And then I come to this country and hear certain people(white) tell me I’m suppose to be scare of water and that I can’t swim. I guess that explained the look on the three white people faces, (total shock ) that were at the beach when I was back there just over a year ago and decided to go swimming with my sister way out in the water. LOOK, OUR FEET DONT TOUCH THE BOTTOM!!!!. HA.HA. HA

Huh @ 36. Here in the town where I’m teaching in Eastern China, there are canals and rivers and lakes everywhere. There’s a giant pond in the middle of the school where I teach, purely for scenic purposes, and when students want to have a day out, they go to one of the larger manmade lakes in town and take a paddleboat out on it. It’s a huge part of life.

Admittedly, this isn’t a large city, and isn’t very wealthy, but I’ve heard the nearby city of Suzhou is also full of canals, and it’s pretty large / wealthy / famed.

But then Chinese also represents a really wide range of people, and most Chinese-Americans don’t hail from the region where I’m staying. So YMMV.

Now most black people (especially those from the Islands) know that if your trying to live by the ocean especially in spots where hurricanes hit, its not a good idea. Your house that you were dreaming about will be gone. Just thought white people should know.

Well now Sue Ellen, as any real black person knows–the reason for hating water is that the blacks have always been forced to live in the low lying areas of the county.
Therefore! Any serious rain was a very scary thing cause
the drainage systems in the less uh, uh, darker areas held a less important something or another in terms of maintaince. In short–high water for a black was a real and present danger.

black people hate living near the water because they can’t swim. When I was in the Army, we had to do drown-proofing where we would jump into the water fully clothed and do neat white person things like swim, float, and survive.

It was done in a swimming pool and you were directed in this fashion…

“People who can swim, deep end, people who can’t swim, shallow end.”

It could just as easily been, “Whites, deep end, blacks, shallow end.”

On the flip side in my extensive travels to areas that are good for hiking and camping and fishing and such, I had the rare oppertunity to take on one of my fire crews an
african american teenager .

Upon observation of Joe I began to wonder if there was something primative coded within his DNA.
It was then and there I realized the reasons in why Joe did not like to camp or be out doors , as he made his bed in the center of a 600 person fire fighting shanty town.

IT was easily seen in the one simple statment he gave me. ” I know there is a moutain lion out here and I know I will be the only person he decided to eat.” WOW , he left the camp crew the next day. We missed Joe and the moutain lion raised by the sasquatch was nothing more than a humble purring kitten.

Good stuff, keep up the good work. Let the white liberal shmucko choke on this. This site should have been called white people from Ca and the North East. Southeast White People dispise most of these things, because we do not give a sh*t about most of it.

An interesting phenomenon in Northern California is that the reverse is true for SF Bay south of “The City” (what White People call San Francisco). The water has to be appealing, like the SF Bay up in Marin, in towns like Tiburon and Belvedere. But the south end of the bay is full of icky mudflats, so the “waterfront” neighborhoods in Santa Clara Co are some of the poorest (Alviso, Milpitas, East Palo Alto), while the most desirable White People neighborhoods are far away from the water up in the foothills (Los Altos Hills, Saratoga, Los Gatos). Seems Chip and Muffy don’t like mudflats.

Do you get super cracker credits if your house and your vacation house are both on the ocean?

What about Islands? They really tend to be kinda white even if ethnically they’re not white. Like Manhattan. That was Indian Territory. Or the Caribbean that’s getting more and more whitewashed with every passing cruise ship.

It’s on the coast, in the process of gentrification, too high up the cliffs to really “use” the water (too damned cold anyway), surrounded by hip/ethnic/slightly scary Latinos right next door and threatening/violent Afro-Americans across in Long Beach and Wilmington, but defintely separated from the rich, Republican snobs in PV.

Dang!!!! I have a mountain view that I used to love, but now I realize it is only a poor substitute.

Maybe I can get the valley just below my house dammed and flooded as replacement wetland. That would give me environmental cred AND waterfront property. Or maybe just dam up the little swale and see if it will fill with water….

How does a small pond (aquaculture and growing organic wasabi) count on the whiteness scale?

That’s why Vancouver kicks so much ass. Mountains *and* ocean all in walking distance. No one here actually does ski and windsurf in the same day, but it could easily be done. Man, I could never leave here! Yes I’m white. Yes, I’m damn proud of it! (But I f’in HATE Apple computers and pricey coffee shops)

PS: My guess is this is an inherited thing. White people sailed in, scored themselves a huge chunk of resource rich continent, and loved living in port/river cities ever since. Plus every white who sailed over did so more-or-less voluntarily, so must have had some love of water. Unfortunately, early blacks didn’t have much of a choice whether they got on the boat to America or not, and passed down the horror stories to the little ones.

To summarise: White boating history was happy, Black boat history not so much.

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As a white person, I am offended that you neglected to mention the Hamptons…a very important part of the hip white person’s existance in the Tri (New York) state area.
The dining, shopping, star-sighting…how can you lose…oh yeah, and the beaches aren’t such a shabby way to work-off a hangover from the past evening’s partying at the Star Lounge.

Living next to water is a load of crap. If you live in the L.A. area the water is literally full of crap. Who wants to live near a bay sized toilet? In the mountains of CA, all the good bodies of water are packed with tourists for a good chunk of the year. Who wants all that noise and extra traffic? For this white boy, the best place to live is in a massive Las Vegas suite, way up on the top floor of a decent casino hotel. I’d rarely leave the building because I’d have everything I need inside. If I really wanted to look at some body of water I’d put the travel channel on my wall sized display and get as real as I want to be. Then I’d go back to watching what all white boys love: Life sized porno!

Hamptons, Shmamptons. New England is the shizit. Try “The Vineyard,” or any of the down-east Maine Islands. Cain’t get much whiter than that. And, there’s even the “Ink Well” in Oak Bluffs, to make us knee-jerk liberal white folk feel less racist.

Italian coffee every morning at Rao’s, poolside by day, quick lunch at Bobby Flay’s, tons of gambling, sports book in late p.m. to catch the 7 p.m. games (eastern), fantastic dinners, free lounge shows, more cocktails……thrown in a gym session every other day!

Mountain views? Second best? Speak for yourself, kimosabe . . . Oh, wait. I’m an engineer educated at a public university who lives in an arid climate and doesn’t give a rat’s ass about assists. I’m not White, never mind.

I own an Apple computer but only use it when I go to expensive coffee shops. I can’t stand hiking, biking, or kayaking but, being white, I’m obligated to own the necessary fashions and accouterments from said hobbies. How well you do something is far less important than how you would look if you actually did it. That’s why my meticulously distressed Converse sneakers only come out of the closet when I’m attending PETA rallies.

Are you allowed to do that? Isn’t there some unwritten white rule which states that if your primary domicile is near the water, then your vacation home must be near the mountains (or vice versa)? I guess if you own a home in the ‘burbs, then, theoretically, you could have multiple 2nd homes near water. But I do have one question, do vacation homes have to be rustic? I recently saw “Dan in Real Life” and was just wondering.

For those who haven’t seen the move, your $7.50 would be better spent on a bottle of musk from the airport men’s room.

You can avoid that problem by choosing to live near the lake as opposed to the ocean, plus the lack of predatory sea life and rip tides makes it that much more appealling.

I guess the thrill of reading next to the water is the adrenaline rush you get, because you could drop your book in at any time. Then you have to pay the library for it and the markup on library books is like 3 times that of retail! What a rush…

judging by the casper-esque bare chest color, i am even whiter than you. and you make a statement equally as ridiculous when you say white people “pretend to love the city.” Save your pedantic, breezy musings for your private diary.

I always wondered what the proper white peoples etiquette is for “relieving” ones self while sailing? Do you whip I out and let it fly (guys) or hang over the edge (girls)?

Is there a “green” approach to this problem? Should I be recycling?

Here is another related question:
If I have a house on the water, can I pee off the deck? (There is nothing like drinking a few beers, going out on the porch late at night and letting go.) Am I doing the right thing?

Isn’t everyone proud of where they come from. I also know if you guys spent as much time helping the poor as you guy’s all tend to put in these time consuming blogs then maybe you wouldn’t have as much to complain about. Who’s gonna help everyone when after all the nice people have been ganged against. You guys don’t even know who to vote for or how to impeach. I’ve never seen it done. Prove me wrong. Any of you’s. So I have an attitude maybe it’s cause the know it alls of this country have a slowitude problem and they cause all of the chaos. I would like something for once just function without a glitch. Would be nice but, I’m sure I’m in an insane dream. I’m extremely poor and guess what I’m white. Very white. This doesn’t make me different than anyone else. It certainly doesn’t make me trash and if you think so, then I pray god teaches all the people who do a hard lesson and I mean hard.It’s not my fault I’m attracted to a good looking white guy just like black girls are attracted to men of their race or vice versa and when you cross territories we’re gonna demand respeckt on all sides or else just so you know because god would expect so too. Why because you are cross marrying into our families and how would you like someone to belittle your family. In my bank account I have nothing, I don’t have a car, I don’t own a home. We rent from guess what a lady who is darker than me. Mostly I do not think this is a color problem. I feel it is a lazy inaction problem on people who won’t stop blaming each other long enough to help all the children white, asian, non-white,tribal whatever. The lord god made all things. He also chose the isrealites. Do you think it is more right to hurt others or to do unto your neighbor as you would have done unto yourself. We can’t change what is in our hearts. Whom we are programmed to love and not love it’s a fact and to deny it would just be wrong. God is love. Love is god. When you have true love god is happy. If you deny your heart well everyone knows that story =). Mexican women get more manicures and pedicures. I’ve only had like 3 my whole life and I’m 28. So, I like to go to the beach and sink my toes and body into the cold sand because it feels good. I like to listen to the waves because it helps me to have a better focus on what I need to do or what I’m thinking about. Even the ethnic girl knows more about coffee shops than I do. I like to get away and not be measured by people for something I’m not or how they’re going to attack me and judge me when they don’t even know me. Occasionally I have a drink but, that’s rare like 3 times a year. It’s mostly the summer people who come here to New England that own all those properties. The real nice local people. You don’t see them as much anymore they’re scattered. I’ve cleaned houses,babysat, drove taxi (that was hellifun), answered phones. I like lots of things oceanography, climatology, geology, music, comedy,countries,anthropology, history,architexture. One thing I don’t like and always stay away from is politics,psychology and sociology. Some big people are teddybears and then other big peolple are really unorganized and so bad that this unorganization travels throughout history making lots more little unorganizations. Not everything is unorganized.There’s lot of things we’re good at and some not and then there’s the different ways, peoples, meanings, and such that is has to flow and when it’s not directed to flow well then it affects the minds and happiness of people. That’s why i like to take time out. Fishing, computer whatever just so I can say ya my id god gave me was welch and when i leave this world I’m just a person like everyone else who was here who lived that life in a body cause it’s not like we can get out yet. My grandma recently died and this was in her poem collection. I think it is beautiful and reminds me of her Violet Rose Welch:
What do you see, nurse, what do you see?
Are you thinking when you look at me
A crabbit old woman, not very wise
Uncertain of habit with far away eyes,
Who dribbles her food and makes no reply
When you say in a loud voice- “I’d do wish you’d try.”
Who seems not to notice the things that you do
And forever is losing a stocking or shoe,
Who resisting or not, Lets you do as your will
With bathing and feeding the long day to fill.
Is that what you’re thinking, Is that what you see?
Then open your eyes, nurse. You’re not looking at me.
I tell you who I am as I sit here so still.
As I move at your bidding eat at your will.
I’m a small child of ten a father a mother,
brothers and sisters who love one another;
A young girl of sixteen with wings on her feet
Dreaming that soon a lover she’ll meet;
A bride soon at twenty- My heart gives a leap
Remembering the vows that I promised to keep.
At twenty-five now I have young of my own
Who need me to build a secure, happy, home.
A woman of thirty my young now grow fast
Bound together with ties that should last.
At forty, My young sons have grown up and gone
But my man’s beside me to see I don’t mourn
At fifty once more babies play around my knee
Again we know children my loved one’s and me.
Dark days are upon me my husband is dead.
I look at the future, I shudder with dread.
For my young are all rearing young of their own
And I think of the years and the love that I’ve known.
I’m an old woman and nature is cruel.
‘Tis her jest to make old age look like a fool.
The body it crumbles, grace and vigour depart.
There is a stone where I once had a heart.
But inside this carcass a young gil still dwells
And now and again my battered heart swells.
I remember the joys, I remember the pain
And I’m loving and living life over again.
I think of the years, All too few, Gone to fast,
And accept the stark fact that nothing can last
So open your eyes, nurses, open and see
Not a crabbit old woman, Look closer- see me!!

As a sailor ever since I was young and the owner of two houses near the water (one my the beach where I live and one on a lake where I vacation) I found this an interesting question.

White people prefer to sail in boats that are large enough to have there own head (a sailing term for a bathroom although it usually smells more like a port-a-potty). If they are slumming it in a smaller boat then white people will definately pee over the side as long as there are none of the opposite sex in the boat.

You do not need to worry about your pee not being “green” enough. Pee is natural and biodegradeable. In fact, peeing out doors makes us white people feel more at one with nature which satisfies several things that white people like.

Finally, you can only pee out doors if no one of the opposite sex is present. White people never expose themselves in public. The only exeptions are for men. Men can urinate in public while camping, while in college at a party, or of course on st. patricks day.

p.s. if you don’t know what a wasp is, it is what you call a really white person that is not the “wrong” kind of white.

I have to settle for living over an acquifer. It has nothing on an ocean, well the Pacific Ocean that is. The Atlantic is a waste of salt and space. But, still, living adjacent to water, even in an unswimable and a difficult to access kind of way, comforts me because I know that as the population increase and the temperature rises, I’ll still have the good ol’ H20.

This web site is obsurd because it only shows all of the things that EVERYONE likes…except blacks…this web site is a blight on how disconnected blacks are with popular things in society. Here’s the proof…

I’m not entirely sure if Robert12 is joking. If so – ha ha. If not, surely you recognize that one of the most interesting characteristics of white culture is that we don’t think we have a culture and we think that the stuff we like is the stuff everybody likes.

You forgot one thing, white people actually know how to swim. Actually growing up in chicago when my youth swim club competed against the blackgroups from the south and west sides(100% black we were mixed) there were some strong swimmers though they are never in the olympics.

Indeed. Black people are not known for their yachting skills, are they?
I went to school in the Virgin Islands for a semester — white people love dropping little tidbits like that into conversation, don’t we? — and could count on one hand the number of “natives” I saw surfing, scuba diving, or boating.
The ones that I saw fishing would only do so in shallow, protected coves where you could always see the bottom and the fish, which kinda took the fun out of it.
One never saw them coming into a marina after a deep sea fishing excursion.
The only time I saw natives swimming was pretty much the same thing: shallow water in protected coves, and never at any beach where there were waves.
Of course, on the nicer beaches, the natives wore uniforms and served frozen drinks, smiling all the time.
(White people don’t like sullen natives, do we?)

I like how many white people are even satisfied with buying a giant $900K house made from what is essentially cardboard with no property whatsoever, as long the back yard faces some tiny man-made puddle(and of course the name ‘lakes’ fits into the community’s name).

And as a side note, I’m surprised that all things ‘EXTREME’ didn’t make the list.

I have no interest in living by a body of water; snakes, hurricanes, storms, no thanks! Everything about the water sucks to me. The mountains too. I’d rather have the Massive tv house that someone mentioned.

Ive come on this to the conclusion that the reason white people like all of the shit on this website is the following:
If you got it like that why not experience more with your life.
Shit I golf, snowboard, rockclimb, mountain bike, live in manhattan, drive a fat asS bmw suv, fuck asian women, have plenty of black friends, got sweaters and motherfuckin t-shirts that I’LL wear on a plane to San FraCisco if I damn well fell like it. Shit Ill Even invite my lawyer to my beach house on a sunday for coffee maybe some tea while we read the fuckin New York Times. Yes the Liberal rag that sweats Barack Obama. After that we will indulge in some microbrews on my vintage sail boat.

When I get Bored ill travel the fuck where I want probably to snowboard somewhere usually Utah the whitest fuckin state there is. Ill take in some wine before I watch a film at sundance while I am there.

Just for a challenge I will go to a farmers market get some organic shit go home and order some sushi. You see I am trying to get in shape to run a fuckin marathon. After I finish the first thing I am going to do is shut of my i-pod loaded with free music, grab some bottled water and spark a fat mother fuckin spliff!!!!

YEAH I LOVE BEING AWARE OF DIVERSITY.

HOWEVER THE IRONY OF THIS WHOLE THING IS BEING WHITE FOR ME ONLY FOR ME!!! kICKS BIGTIME ASS!!

I have you know that most people down here on the water front are loaded. I’m not but I don’t care.I’ve got water front property. So to hell with the ones that don’t like the water. Maybe you have issues.I have always thought the water was beautiful. My opinion is that God did his best work when land and water collide.

Omar Sharif, and I bet you are quite interesting to hang out with at parties. I agree with your comment.

Someone mentioned to me that the motion of water and trees being blown by the wind is soothing. I think there is something to this. The water typically has a fresh clean smell. There’s a bar that’s near a river in my town. During the summer they keep the doors open, and it’s a really pleasant place to hang out.

There’s a fancy new term for the idea that people are going to start moving back to cities (I can’t recall the term, “urban something”). It will most likely be people too poor to continue to live in the suburbs. They expect a lot of empty nest baby boomers to make the move. I am skeptical that people will do so by choice rather than necessity.

“White hipsters make the mistake of moving INTO poor/crappy neighborhoods as if that makes them less white/mainstream.”

Actually they do this out of necessity–they need the cheap rents–but it is often the first step in gentrification of formerly ethnic neighborhoods. However, most of those people end up moving to better locations if they have kids.

I’ve noticed that this blog is freakishly accurate in describing Vancouver and Vancouverites. I think it’s because what he’s really describing are simply liberal, middle to upper-middle class urban West Coast young people.

this blog is hilarious and to be honest i find most of these things apply to me even though i am not white. i have facebook, love t-shirts, pretty much only drink bottled or filtered water, eat sushi, belong to netflix, live by the water and hope to own a property on the water in the future, snowboard, love microbrews and wine, travel like crazy, and the list only goes on. keep it going dude! all the criticizers need to relax.

This is the funniest blog I have ever read. You have nailed it, nailed it, nailed it. It is painful it’s so funny. I am white, and sadly, yes, I like most everything on the list. Including Wes Anderson movies, architecture, grammar, coffee. On and on.

I am only saddened that some folks do not seem to recognize satire. Incidentally, is “satire” going to make the list? I see the Daily Show/Colbert Report are already there…

You know, I am a “tall honkey”, so to speak, a white guy who fits your loose description, an instance of “white people”.

My family, in the summer, we like to hang out at our cottage on the west shore of Green Bay,WI (inlet of Lake Michigan); and cook out, fish, sail, etc. I like to sail my little Hobie Cataramaran from there. I am educated (Bachelors Degree), and I am an Active Duty Army Veteran. I am white, yes, but I have had many, many friends of mine who are not (these guys and gals are native American, black, and asian) come out on the boat with me. (The women in sexy bikinis, [grin]. We REALLY enjoy our times together. We sail out and check out Longtail Beach. We throw a firsbee, drink beers together, and cook out, then sail back. I have to say that, really, my life has been GREATLY ENHANCED by those of other cultures…

So yeah, I read your blog, and yeah, I laugh at your stereotyping of white Americans, but I take it with a certain “grain of salt”, so to speak. A lot of what you have to say rings true, but yet, people have a way of pleasantly surprising you when you least expect it. I’ve had the firsthand pleasure of having become enriched by other cultures.

For instance, I take guitar lessons from an afro-american MASTER (the guy is awesome), and I was taught to fish (the guy is equally awesome), (quite well, I might add) by an Hmong Asian friend of mine.

Me? I’m a 6 and a half foot tall, open minded white guy, with a decent sense of humor.

The thing is, or it boils down to, the fact that we cannot choose our race or form when we come into this world, when we are born, but we all can learn useful lessons and tips/tricks about this life, from one another…

Great blog, unmet friend. Keep it up. It is entertaining to the full-most. It helps all of us to understand our unique differences. I appreciate it. I learn from it. Job well done.

If living near the water isn’t your lifes dream, then why don’t all the people living in public housing that consumes prime ocean front real estate, like Coney Isalnd and Rockaway Beach, LEAVE so we white people can live there.

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I think it’s a rule that when you graduate from Michigan, you have to move to Hermosa/Mahattan beach, take up surfing, and have super bowl parties with all of your friends from college. Ultimately, one in this position should aspire to become a successful commercial real estate broker, and move to Santa Monica to marry a girl from Northern California that owns a pilates studio.

BUT! what if you’re white and you grow up on the water? what then? i grew up on the water, so was my entire childhood a paradisical, elysian-field like existence without my even knowing it? am i so happy because i a) grew up on water or b)i’m white? or does the combination of the two just make all of you want to kill yourselves with jealousy? the sad thing: now that i moved away from my cihldhood home to pursue a useless degree in some sort of liberal art, it’s all downhill from here. and i can’t go back to where i grew up–that would be horribly un-white. someone help.

Either that or you were doing that white person thing where you give an unsolicited biography and make sure to mention some random token examples of diversity then sign off with an outdated greeting that’s almost a cliche but isn’t ironic or particularly clever

Most of this list is true and funny. I love it. I think one of the reasons that white people like to live near the water is because most black people don’t know how to swim. Most black people can’t afford to live near the water so white people naturally want to move towards the water to escape ignorance.

Eh, I’ll stick with my acreage on the Great Plains, where my nearest neighbor can’t be seen with the naked eye and I can take a leak off the front porch (if I’ve a mind to) without some uptight jack-off calling the law.

Including Queensbridge projects and all the other NYCHA housing on the North West side of Queens…. they have the best views, and subsudised rent – and are a 15 minutes train ride out of Manhattan… But you have to be poor to live there, figures. (for the record most of these housing projects are about 20% white – with the exception of Queensbridge – )

Hey – the hamptons and New england rock – that’s the best part of living in the North East. I can be in the Hamptons on Monday, and in Naragansett or Newport the next day. Love our side of the continent.

Yes, the rest of us just hate the idea of beachfront properties which is why we deliberately avoid them.
We choose these small crowded apartments as a social statement.
Me? I could get me a Victorian house in Maine any day, but I would miss waiting for people to get out of the bathroom and buying mouse traps.

PS Everybody I know who wears J.Crew is black and not the kind with white friends.

Friday Night Lights should get an entry. It’s critically acclaimed (Compared to The Wire in terms of how deep it is), and barely anyone watches it. Infact, it’s also one of the most popular shows with affluent viewers, it’s perfect.

i dont understand this…. who wouldnt want to live by the water? is it really a white thing? …. i guess all the cities in all the countries ever built along the water were built by white people… or wait

Yes, this is an unfortunate consequence of allowing the wrong kind of white people access to properties near water. Truly elite white people only own sailboats, which are quiet, and are excellent for reading and drinking red wine while onboard. Some not quite elite whites have powerboats that, while noisy, aren’t generally driven in circles around the bay. These people tend to go on outtings for the day with a basket of whole foods and really good cheese and possibly hummus if the cottage store carries it. I suggest you look into more affluent regions before judging, as you appear to be the right kind of white person.

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Living by das water: high taxes, flood insurance, fake snobs, trustfunders, people who are chronically non-employed, living off of parents–heck, it’s white people. is there a farter’s market to go to to buy orgasmic lemons for 3 bucks a piece to support julio et al??

ok i’ve read through almost half of your entries i think. you’re great, of course. except, it seems most of the things you write about are as much about whites-only as much tall is only about the Dutch. to me, it’s more like class (and possibly) locale where you derive your inspiration. i realize you might be aware of it. i’d be goodglad to know it anyway.

p.s. i’m sorry if i’m repeating somebody else’s comment. i just haven’t had the courage to trod through all of the countless comments you get.

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I dream of a giant rain storm in the piece of desert near me and form a new lake, almost a repeat of the formation of the Salton Sea, Caifornia’s largest lake (saltier than the Pacific) once had more tourists than all the state’s beaches combined in the 1950s to 70s. Today, it’s a cesspool from agricultural chemical run-off and Mexico’s inability to store water waste. But living by the water…can be pretty, but beware of the salty stench and the dead bird/fish kills. +

Iggi, you’re full of more sh*t than Dockweiler Beach near the L.A. airport. The beach was the most frequented by Black-Americans in the mid 20th century, but there are much better beaches not surrounded by sewage storm drains or oil field-refinery run-off. Anyone wanna move to El Segundo? It’s the new Santa Monica, but you may be awoke by a loud 747 taking off or 767 made a landing. +

White American people over age 60 are crossing the border down to San Felipe, Baja Cal. on the sea of Cortez (Gulf ofel California to gringos), where five-digit US dollar prices after conversion from the Mexican Peso means “big bargains” to retire in, and low-cost (maybe free) health care available. The irony of being retired not from a corporate seat. +

Who wants to live in Hawaii??? Good luck finding a piece of open land, low-priced and facing towards the sea. In fact, you better pay for the insurance for living in a very high tsunami warning risk zone. +

emily, west coast folk are a horse of a different color, we’re flocking to San Clemente known to be Richard Nixon’s exile and the San Onofre nuclear power plant makes the city (and beach at night) “glow” in employment opportunities. +

Prey for more global warming, but 30 degrees closer to the pole-shift expected in 2012, and the Mountain states with the Great Salt Lake concerned to dry up, but more rain and then ice, you could get yourself another Caspian Sea…and the San Andreas fault produces a 10.6 tremor to sick all of California, so you all have new beachfront property. +

Many generation X white people were born in a bathtub by a hippy mother, and the father is like “Welcome, man, you are the water child Aquarius Moonbeam”. No wonder we’re bitter at our folks, yet we should be glad our parents didn’t want to pay big bucks or doped with drugs (mom is on morphine) to have us, “Aquarius Moonbeam Rainbow”. +

Living in the sands…not on the beach, but the American desert. The fastest growing population in US history was in the Southwest, thanks to sun-worshipping retirees who can’t stand the snow every winter. Palm Springs is where the former Orange Coast people moved to in the 1990s.+

Screw the Hamptons (or the Jews), head down to Palm Springs where in 20 years the Cahuilla Indian tribe will get back the land after the “75-year lease” is over. N.Y. Jews are freely welcomed to Palm Springs, since we welcomed every race (and even more gays) to live there. LOL! +

Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas? Cool, but when the summer comes, take a flight north to Reno, the “biggest little town”. I’m hoping Lake Tahoe remains a crystal clear lake, when the tourists are not in town, polluting it with boat exhaust. +

PV=Palos Verdes, and farther north is Redondo Beach, where my Mom grew up in the 1950s/60s. She can’t identify her childhood two-story home in an apartment complex in the so-called Clifton area, and Hollywood Riviera-Torrance. She taken me to the beach in San Pedro (Cabrillo beach) when I was young, but lived in Indio-Palm Springs, and she took me & my bro to the Cabrillo bay-Los Angeles Aquarium. Long Beach was where my grandparents briefly lived after WWII-before Korean war era, the US Navy was a huge employer and the shipyard by the Terminal Island bridge. +

More irony: the period between 1940 and 1980 was when the wealthy wanted to live in the middle of desert, with their planes, golf clubs and hotel hideaways. No wonder why we have Las Vegas, Phoenix, Scottsdale, Mesa Az. , Tucson, Palm Springs, Palm Desert and Victorville covered in endless housing tracts or suburban sprawl since 1980. Oh I wanna mention famous aviator Jackie Cochran of the 1930’s/40’s lived in a ranch, and the house was known to housed General George S. Patton commanding WWII military training grounds in Indio Cal. +

LoL! Where I live is below sea level from Indio all the way to Yuma Az. and Mexicali, the Imperial valley itself is a very fast growing population centre. The agriculture brought in people when they wanna work, but most of the newcomers are retirees fleeing from cold or snowy states and the rest is history. Strange but true for the land elevation under the sea level created by active seismic faults (earthquakes).+

Nope, get a swimming pool. If you got money by the stock market, running your own business or inherited cash from your parents: a “cement pond”. For the rest of us against owning stocks or bonds, work for other people and cheap as they are: a plastic pool in the back yard inflated and filled with hose water. It works…my Mom did.+

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Thats not a white thing-thats a people thing. Modern sources of food are relatively new. For most of history, people have depended on the land they lived on to survive. Bodies of water are an excellent source of food, so we’re genetically disposed to want to live near them.

I don’t know if anyone from Hawaii has mentioned this…. But I think this observation is spot on! Many coastal areas (KAILUA, HAWAII KAI, HALEIWA-NORTH SHORE) on Oahu are DENSELY populated by white people. It appears to be a matter of having $$$ and a support system. If you go to Ted’s Bakery out in sunset you will find a bumper sticker over the entrance that reads “HAOLEWOOD” basically stating that the white people have landed.

I like the idea of living next to water, but don’t like dealing with flooding, erosion, hurricanes, etc. Used to live next to a creek that would flood in the spring, and occasionaly take the road with it…

@goncalo: I think a lot of you have problems understanding these are just broad funny stereotypes that apply to the current (young 20-30’s) white population of the USA. OF COURSE black people, and Asian, and Latino people do some of these things. YOU DO NOT NEED TO SAY YOU ARE BLACK AND YOU DO THIS TOO (no one cares! these are just funny WHITE stereotypes). and Of course all white people don’t do all these things. These are just FUNNY STEREOTYPES that are oddly and recently very prevalent in American White culture. I am very guilty (and not guilty) of a lot of these. I think it is really funny. I live in Japan, have an Asian girlfriend, like mos def, used to make movies, wanted to be a writer, like to camp, etc, etc. No I don’t do yoga and don’t really like tea… and I am NOT going to be all defensive and complain that this list is stupid and I guess I am not white cause I don’t drink wine. Just enjoy this for what it is. BROAD STEREOTYPES. one more thing. Stop being so defensive. You don’t need to post on every thing that you DON’T do, “I don’t do …..” whatever. good for you.

here is an idea for the next item. Stuff white people like: not having a sense of humor or being remotely opened minded.

whats wrong with you people. these are just sterotypes.
Think about this sterotype (do some of you even know what that word means?) If you watch cribs, or life styles of the rice and famous. There are plenty of rich white people, and plenty of rich black people. How many of those black dudes live on the beach. NONE. how many of those white people live on the beach. MOST!!!!. ok its just a fucking stereotype.

WASP stands for White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. It is an informal term used in the United States and Canada[1] in reference to an ethnic elite with high social status and presumed power. The term excludes Roman Catholics, Jews, blacks, Hispanics and Asians.

This is true because white people have a natural survival instinct, unlike black people. White people aspire to live by water because water offeres the greatest chances for survival. Blacks don’t think in terms like that.

Definitely true; although smart WP know you should not live right next to any body of water. You want to be above it (for safety and the white-water view if relevant), and preferably within about 1-2 blocks distance away. It depends on the situation but most bodies of water come with either flooding and/or collapsing risks. The only people who do go for living right next to the water usually give it up after discovering that there are a few months out of the year when the tide will surprise you, by reaching into your living room; or when they realize that every year a foot or two of their back yards tumble into the surf.

This is SO true! I moved to Mexico and got a house on the ocean. Can’t afford it in San Diego, but got a sweet ocean front in Baja. The funniest thing is that I don’t even like water, and never go in it for any reason, and when I was looking for a house in Mexico, I wasn’t planning on an ocean front but once I saw one I HAD to have it. yes, I am totally white, 34, and professional to boot.
TOO FUNNY.Because it’s true.

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Hey I’m black and I like water, I swim like a fish. A certified diver and I ski. If I could I would live close to water, because it’s pretty and it sounds good. It’s not true that only whites like living near water, you’d have to know the entire black population to the make that comment.

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This is true. I live on the water and we have had 5 significant floods in the past 10 years and two of them were big ones Isabel, and Ida that flooded many waterfront properties around here. There are plenty of waterfont homes on the market now for bargain prices because people around here know how that everything on the waterfront got flooded in 2003, and again in 2009. Before that it hadn’I happened since 1962 and people tend to forget about flooding from storms if a big one hasn’t happened in 40 years.

Most of the yuppies who owned those waterfront houses that got swamped twice were not born 40 years ago and had no idea that the tide could get that high because they were not from around here and had never heard of the Ash Wednesday Storm. When I was a kid my grandad told me how high the water came during the storms in 1962, and 1933 and I did not believe him…I do now!

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The white people in Ontario love their cottages. They are the rich folk who get upset because I “charge too much” to fix their computer, yet they have a big fancy cottage and a boat. They are the ones causing all the accidents on the highways in the summertime because they are in such a rush to get to their cottage.

One day a white woman started talking to me while we were waiting to cross the street. She was telling me how she hates when it rains on the weekend because she can’t go to her cottage her grandparents gave her. I was polite, yet I could care less about her snooty cottage story.

This is an amazingly racist blog…
I accidentally stumbled upon this site and couldn’t resist checking it out. When you hear someone/anyone make a a statement as racist as “all white people like to live near the water”… one cannot pass up the opportunity to witness “stupid” at work.

I assume this person is african american or the like… because most other races don’t have the anger towards “white people” that the blacks in the US do and understandably so.

I find it extremely hypocritical for an assumed ethnic person to write a blog with such gross generalities and with such absolute certainty about another race of people. This is the same person who would have a COW if she/he read a blog such as this, aimed at African Americans using such offensive language and racist views.
The hypocrisy is nauseating, but unfortunately not a surprise.

When the blacks take over this country… and yes I said WHEN. This is when racism will truly be out of control. It’s no secret that “whites” are more tolerant of blacks than vice versa… if you dont believe me… try this.
Send a white teenager to an all black school… and see what happens. Then, send a black teenager to an all white school and see what happens.
The white teenager will most likely be physically assaulted numerous times until they are forced to find another school to atttend, but the black teenager (attending an all white school) will most likely not be bothered.

for the record I am a White/American Indian and I would NEVER live near the water… because I hate the mosquitos and I don’t like the mildew smell of a lake or a river.

Water smells… unless you live by the ocean or a really fresh mountain stream or something like that.
I also hate the way everything looks like crap near the ocean. The houses and building at the beach are always run down looking from the intense weather conditions and the salt air, etc…

Why people want to invest millions of dollars in property that is vulnerable to every hurricane that comes along and costs a fortune to maintain is beyond me. Not to mention the insurance cost for houses near water…
YUCK!!!

Ooga, this is a quite well-known blog written by Christian Lander, who is a totally nerdy white person who likes all of these things and exercises not taking himself too seriously.

Don’t be too offended (or accidentally say things that actually make you sound racist – like about black people generally being hypocrites – helloooo) until you know what the story is. Click on “About” and then search for the author.

Damn, I’m more of a hillbilly conservative white person from the south so i’ve managed to dodge the majority of this list and laugh it up at the yuppies. This one nailed me though, I love to brag to my friends about fishing right off my back porch, then bask in the glory of their jealousy and comments about how lucky I am. In truth, fishing off my back porch got boring after about a month.

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This blog is basically a congregational website for all raging closet racists. The blog enables them to share sub-par racist jokes and then pretend to find it funny, only to feed their general insecurities.

White people, in general, are becoming less and less classy. Please, continue to bring yourselves down to the levels of those you aim to insult. I’m very curious to see how it plays out for you in the end!

MARVEL, I am sooooo bored by your comment, why would you say something like that?

Anyways, I want to live by the water, very strong urge to live by the water, for all the activity reasons. However, I don’t get the reading thing either. I see people do this anywhere from fast food chains to the beach. You stick your noses in the book and you never look up!!!

MARVEL, I have a sad feeling you visit McDonald’s on Sundays probably to enjoy your weekly Eggs McBungHole while you read the newspaper.

Owning a waterfront house has become like a trophy for many people. I live on the water in a modest home that I inherited from my grandparents. Back in their day people who lived down by the water were considered to be a lower life form and were called “muddy toes” and “river rats” by the uptown city folks. When I was a kid this whole area was woods and small farms owned by people who grew produce and worked the water fishing crabbing, and oystering. Most of the old watermen have passed on and their kids have sold the farms to developers for waterfront McMansion communities. I hung on to my family’s small farm because my family has lived here for 200 years.

Most of my neighbors live in 6,000 square ft. Mcmansions, with four car garages, a pool and, boat dock with a yacht tied to it that they rarely take out. Many of the yachts tied to piers on the river where I live never move and have a barnacle colony on the bottom that has been growing for years. I go rowing in the morning and kayaking in the evening and I usually have the entire river to myself. Occasionally I see some of these people’s kids out there on jet skis but most of the time I see nobody.

I would think that these folks who paid $1M plus for the privilege of living there would be out enjoying the water, sailing, kayaking, boating, whenever they have a moment of free time but they are not. In the evenings when I go paddling past these waterfront mansions I see the glow of one of more big screen TVs through the windows and wonder why they bother because they are not out on the water…or even looking at it. They are sitting in there watching Television.

Eventually the yacht they paid hundreds of thousands or maybe even millions of dollars for gets so run down from lack of use, (and maintenance) that it would cost more to fix than it is worth, or it springs a leak and sinks at the dock and they donate it to charity and take a tax deduction. After being flooded out by Hurricanes Isabel, Irene, Ernesto, Ida, and Sandy some of these folks have had their fill and are packing it in and putting their waterfront mansions up for sale, but there seems to be no shortage of people who want to “live the dream” and shell out over a million bucks for the opportunity.

A businessman from China just bought a waterfront mansion just up the road from me, I didn’t have the heart to tell him that the previous owners had been flooded out of it five times in the past decade which is why they decided to sell. I suspect he will find out soon enough…hurricane season is coming!

This is easily understood:
Look at the map of Europe and you’ll realize how much coastlines it holds in a few km2, even more than the whole planet.

And when you think of Europe what do you think of?:
-Netherlands (a country built over water)
-Norway (land of the fjords)
-Denmark (where every family owns a boat)
-Russia (land of a thousand lakes)
-Greece (where everyone lives in an island)

Add to this that European countries relied heavily on their navy to conquer the world and you’ll realize how much of an aquatic race White people are.
This can be traced back to their 20.000y/o Neaderthal ancestry, when they lived among snow, which is basically solid water.

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This blog is hilarious!!! But to be honest, a lot of people like living near water simply because they love water sports. Swimming is my life, and if I could afford to be lakeside and not have to drive to get there I would!